Task 2
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George Pal
Was an American animator which
specialized in the category of Sci-fi and action. One of his best pieces is The
War of the Worlds which is a very popular film made in 1953 and it was about a
big object that crashes into earth and soon after that the world is in danger
from these enemies. George was also a big animator of puppets and creating
entertainment from this, the video shows an example of his work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9fpzNg28y8
Willis O’Brien
This animator specialized in clay mostly when
creating an animation and these were very detailed with rubber creating things
such as breathing animals with bladders. O’Brien’s animations were famous for
having personalities in his creatures by the facial expressions and the ways
that they act. This is a good way of capturing the audience’s attention as it
adds excitement. He worked on King Kong as the movements he made were realistic
so his capability was seen around the world from his creation to make life
through stop motion, there was a sequel called Son of Kong which he created
himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sND4F3hdBS4
Ray Harryhausen
Ray was a fan of dinosaurs and fantasy creatures
and was experimenting stop motion animation from inspirations such as King
Kong. Harryhausen met O’Brien and they were working on several projects
together sharing their love for realistic animals creating films. One of his
first pieces were Puppetoons. He then went on to create the Sinbad series which
included computer graphic effects very early on which was a new era to see this
animation also known as CGI today which is used by Pixar animation. This was
the start to Hollywood editing as Transformers have used this technique to show
crashes. Also Harryhausen did voice over work for Elf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4
Tim Burton
Burton is an animator of children’s animated
horror films, he started by gathering the inspiration from Vincent Price and
got an apprentice at Walt Disney for animating but actually drops out for their
ideas being ‘boring’. Tim Burton tends to share his variety of films from
animated to CGI such as Sweeney Todd is shot with real actors and locations
whereas some scenes are CGI but he was the director of this film. Corpse Bride was
the start of the genre of these films and it continued to Vincent. He varies
his work from animation to real life which shows the inspiration to have
animation and real life in the same film. Foley
Foley sound is very helpful with considering specific sound you want and this can be recorded by yourself creating a realistic and true sound to the stop motion animation.
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Frame rates: These are how many frames are shot
within 1 second and it can determine the speed of the film but also the
quality. The usual frame rate is 24fps this means 12 drawings to create the
sequence. There would often be judder which can effect video quality and will
not make it very successful.
Phi phenomenon is
the theory of giving an impression that something is moving but we can
determine this with speed.
One famous stop
motion would be Wallace and Gromit which was directed by Nick Park and this was
a big project as it was very popular with the viewers.
Development:
Emile Reynaud was the inventor of the
praxinoscope for being very involved in Early cinematic animation, this was the
first piece of equipment that could project animation films. The first one
projected was the ‘Pantomime Lumineuses’. Praxinoscope: This device is very
much like the phenakisticope, but on this it has pictures spinning on the inner
circle whilst the outer circle is a spinning cylinder. The images created from
this can be projected onto a screen to create a cinema like moving image, which
showed a single image.
The video shows the
images of the horses being reflected and when spun at speed it shows the horse
running motion.
Flip Book: This a type of animation when using a
small flip book to create a movement in an image. Its a series of notes when
flipped at speed can create a scene, this can be as simple as a stickman
walking. Charles-~Emile Reynaud in 1877.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxwS9xypTvkThis video that shows how advanced flipbooks have
become and how complex the moving images can be.
Lumiere
Brothers: The brothers Auguste and Louis were responsible for the creation of the
photograph devices and equipment. Their first film was about the arrival of a
train and it was the first short film produced by the brothers and had its
first screening on the 28th December 1895. The original name was L'Arrivée
d'un train en gare de La Ciotat and the locomotive train was pulling into the
station and in modern day we use these as exterior establishing shots. This was
an unedited film and wanted to show the ways of real and everyday life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk
this is a link to the video which they filmed and it has a running time of 50
seconds. This was shot on a single camera with only one shot and no camera
movement.
There was a
legend that viewers were scared the train will come through the screen it
looked that realistic. This made other animators influenced by real life
pictures being stop motion.
Edison (Kinetoscope)
Thomas Edison was the
inventor of the kinetoscope which was an early animation device used for
viewing of films for only one person to view at a time. The way it would work
would be a strip of film passed quickly with a lightbulb to make it project. This
was the first equipment to be used in Europe for stop motion, this influences
further inventors such as Walt Disney to broadcast his work worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686Y7bZYavA
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